The Crucible Quotes Quiz

“Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.”

Abigail Williams

“You think it is God’s work you should never lose a child, nor grand-child either, and I bury all but one? There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!”

Goody Putnam

“I’ll fly to Mama. Let me fly!”

Betty Parris

“I have laid seven babies un-baptized in the earth. Believe me, sir, you never saw more hearty babies born.”

Goody Putnam

“No - no. There be no unnatural cause here. Tell him I have sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, and Mr. Hale will surely confirm that. Let him look to medicine and put out all thought of unnatural causes here.”

Reverend Parris

“But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it.”

Abigail Williams

“There be no blush about my name.”

Reverend Parris

“I have heard it said…that she comes so rarely to the church this year for she will not sit so close to something soiled.”

Reverend Parris

“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I will ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind.”

John Proctor

“I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she’ll wake when she tires of it.”

Rebecca Nurse

“She wants me dead. I knew all week it would come to this!”

Elizabeth Proctor

“God keep you both; let the third child be quickly baptized, and go you without fail each Sunday to Sabbath.”

Reverend Hale

“It is a mouse no more. I forbid her go, and she raises up her chin like a daughter of a prince…”

Elizabeth Proctor

“Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.”

Reverend Hale

“I saved her life today!”

Mary Warren

“So many time, Mr. Proctor, she come to this very door, beggin’ bread and a cup of cider - and mark this: whenever I turned her away empty, she mumbled.”

Mary Warren

“I see no light of God in that man. I’ll not conceal it.”

John Proctor

“You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’…I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.”

John Proctor

“I mean to please you, Elizabeth.”

John Proctor

"I'll tell you what's walking Salem - vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law."

John Proctor

“Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are what we always were, but naked now. Aye, naked! And the wind, God’s icy wind will blow!”

John Proctor

“I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me…If the girl’s a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she’s fraud.”

John Proctor

“Do you take it up on yourself to determine what this court shall believe and what it shall set aside?…This is the highest court of the supreme government of this providence, do you know it?”

Deputy Danforth

“But if she speak true, I bid you now drop your guile and confess your pretense, for a quick confession will go easier with you.”

Deputy Danforth

“You must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time - we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God’s grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it.”

Deputy Danforth

“A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything. I know it now. I beg you, sir, I beg you - see her what she is…She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance.”

John Proctor

“Excellency, it is a natural lie to tell; I beg you, stop now before another is condemned! I may shut my conscience to it no more - private vengeance is working through this testimony! From the beginning this man has struck me true. By my oath to Heave, I believe him now, and I pray you call back his wife before we-”

Reverend Hale

“A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this will be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!”

John Proctor

“Why it is all simple. I come to do the Devil’s work. I come to counsel Christians they should believe themselves. His sarcasm collapses. There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!”

Reverend Hale

“Quail not before God’s judgement in this, for it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride.”

Reverend Hale

“Great stones lay upon his chest…More weight”

Elizabeth Proctor

“He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!”

Elizabeth Proctor